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She isn't quite ready to pack her bags and jump aboard Space Mountain, but her family said Jira hasn't lost her spirit. She visited the hospital's playroom for the first time this week.

It was the first time she was allowed out of isolation since her bone-marrow transplant. She painted Barbie in several shades of pink, her favorite color, said Tia Styles, Jira's mother. Jira also was allowed to visit with other patients in the unit.

"She had to check on everybody and see how they were doing," Styles said.

Jira still is dealing with chemotherapy treatments to help her body fight rejection and she has mouth ulcers.